Get a grouped triangulated set from a MULTIPOINT. Note how these aren’t constrained by the edges of the input polygons (because we threw those away!) but these are controlled to have a smaller maximum area.

Area is calculated in the native coordinates, assuming “planar coordinates”, with no respect to the real world.

Geometry collection is in development

POLYGON triangles in GEOMETRYCOLLECTION will be re-triangulated. All vertices in the GC will be included, as well as all edges of all component geometries, but each component is triangulated individually, not with reference to the entire set.

Chaining together operations

We can use piping to chain things together.

data("map_world", package="sfdct")
library(dplyr)

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## Attaching package: 'dplyr'

## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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## filter, lag